Background: Our. practice-based research network (PBRN) is conducting an outreach
intervention to increase health insurance coverage for patients seen in the network. To …

Background Determining a community's health care access needs and testing interventions
to improve access are difficult. This challenge is compounded by the task of translating the …

Local health departments (LHDs) play an important role in ensuring essential public health
services. Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a promising means for …

Introduction: A key element for reducing health care costs and improving community health
is increased access to primary care and preventative health services. Geographic …

Background: Changing locations disrupts the populations served by primary health care
clinics, and such changes may differentially affect access to care for vulnerable populations …

Background: Despite growing acceptance and implementation of geographic information
systems (GIS) in the public health arena, its utility for clinical population management and …

A handful of the many changes resulting from the Affordable Care Act underscore the need
for a geographic understanding of existing and prospective member communities. Health …

Geographic information systems (GIS) offer public health nurses a new technology to plan
and implement interventions within communities. The present article gives a brief overview …

Conclusion The experience at DCBOH during the past several years suggests GIS is an
important tool for commu-nity public health empowerment and improvement. Used in the …

Geographic information systems (GIS) include tools that capture, store, analyze, and
manage data linked to geographic locations. These tools were quickly adopted by fields …